But the oil and gas giant has directed some of its fiercest fire at the descendants of John D. Rockefeller, who in 1870 founded Standard Oil, the company that became Exxon Mobil. Rockefeller family charities, longtime backers of environmental causes, have supported much of the research and reporting that has called the company to account for its climate policies, and Exxon Mobil is crying foul.

The pressure on the company is intense. Journalists have published exposés of the company’s research into climate change, including actions it took to incorporate climate projections into its exploration plans while playing down the threat. Such reporting projects, financed in part by Rockefeller family charities, included last year’s work by Inside Climate News and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which published its results with The Los Angeles Times. The findings have been boiled down to the popular Twitter shorthand #ExxonKnew.

Exxon Mobil, in public statements, court filings and thick dossiers on the company’s opponents, says it is the target of a well-funded and politically motivated conspiracy to harm its core business.

Yet where Exxon Mobil and its allies see a tangled conspiracy, members of the Rockefeller family see an effort to use the vast wealth generated by fossil fuels to combat the damage done by fossil fuels.

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Climate change is true ! BUT ! It is not from humans breathing , car exhaust , factory’s pollution or any other pollution . For proof of what I m saying find yourself a compass . Find the north pole . Now hopefully the night ( be sure to go out at about 10:00 pm American eastern time ) is a clear start night . If in Virginia where I am look up over your head . You will see the little dipper with its other star friends around it . Wait I am in Virginia ! Why is the little dipper that contains the north star that is supposed to set over the north pole over my head ? Let an hour lapse . Go back out . It has moved ! It’s not suppose to be moving . Let another hour lapse . It has moved even farther . It is traveling from the east were it arose and going westward . Before morning arrives you will find it has crossed the sky and is now setting in the western sky . The earth has shifted ! Since the earthquake about 7 years ago that rattled the eastern coast all the way up into Canada the earth has been tilting and the north pole is moving so they say 50 miles a day towards Siberia . It finally became so drastic that Florida had to stop plane traffic in order to reset their computer to keep the airlines from landing in the ocean . Our little dipper containing the north star is moving southwards as it goes now east to west . We are shifting , the earth is shifting . This is you climate change ! Look up star map . The latest will show the little dipper has moved off the north pole . The big dipper is now closer to the north pole (north west ) . Watch it as it is spinning durning the night as its pan try’s to follow the location of the little dipper . It dips down then returns pointing in a different direction . It rotates all night . Early in the night about 7:00 pm it is pointing eastwards . Then about 8:00 pm you can see it as it has risen in the east . 10:00 PM it is over my head in Virginia . 11:00 it has head westwards and continues until early morning . This carbon foot print bull needs to be spread on the fields for fertilizer .